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Hand in hand : collaboration in art and conservation / edited by Miranda Brain, Alexandra Gent, Amy Griffin, Lucy Odlin, Caroline Rae and Claire Shepherd.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Archetype, 2024.Description: ix, 107 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781916642027
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Contents:
The Venetian Painting Project: an interdisciplinary research study in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich / Ronja Emmerich, Anneliese Földes, Johanna Pawis, Annette Kranz, Andreas Schumacher, Eva Ortner, Jens Wagner, Jan Schmidt and Heike Stege
Collaboration in the conservation of Baldassare Peruzzi’s Nativity / Olivia Stoddart, Marika Spring, Eugenia Geddes da Filicaia and Anne Stewart
From record to image: creating The Field of the Cloth of Gold / Rosanna de Sancha, Claire Chorley and Claire Shepherd
Indigo: collaboration, collections, conservation, chemistry / Jenny Williamson, Cecile Charbonneau and Ann Hunter
Bridging the gap: reconsidering the artist’s involvement in the conservation process / Virginia Nouwen, Yetunde Odediran, Olympia Diamond and Julia Nagle
A facsimile for a lady: Glasgow Museum’s Unfinished Portrait of an Unknown Lady / María José Prieto Pedregal
The lost Atlantic City: the discovery of a painting by Helen Saunders beneath Praxitella by Wyndham Lewis / Helen Kohn and Rebecca Chipkin
Early Jackson Pollock: the conservation treatment of Naked Man with Knife, Tate collection / Francesca Secchi
Collaboration across centuries? Investigating the reworkings of Hexham Abbey’s ‘Ogle’ altarpiece / Alice Limb and Lucy Wrapson
Distanced but connected: investigation and treatment of the Poynter cartoons from the Heritage Collections at UK Parliament / Chloe Head, Elsa Guerreiro, Caroline Babington, Guan-Lin Liu and Sergei G. Kazarian
Conserving chip by chip: collaborations and challenges in the conservation of a painting on chipboard / Andrei Azzopardi, David Frank Buġeja, Anthony Spagnol and Rachel Vella
Challenges for consolidation and cleaning Franciszka Themerson’s unvarnished white oil paintings: a case study, Abstract (1949) / Aviva Burnstock, Melissa Barton and Silvia Rita Amato
Summary: One stereotypical image of a conservator – or an artist – is of a lone figure absorbed in their work at an easel. This is, of course, rarely the full picture: whether in the making of artworks or the conservation of them, collaboration is often fundamental to the process. Conservators work with each other and with art historians, scientists, artists, stakeholders and many others. The objects they encounter are themselves not always the work of a single hand. The successes and challenges of working collaboratively are brought to the fore in this volume of papers presented at the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers conference Hand in Hand: Collaboration in Art and Conservation. Through a focus on working together, the contributions explore a wide range of questions addressing practical treatments, technical investigations, ethical questions and public engagement in relation to paintings dating from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Venetian Painting Project: an interdisciplinary research study in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich / Ronja Emmerich, Anneliese Földes, Johanna Pawis, Annette Kranz, Andreas Schumacher, Eva Ortner, Jens Wagner, Jan Schmidt and Heike Stege

Collaboration in the conservation of Baldassare Peruzzi’s Nativity / Olivia Stoddart, Marika Spring, Eugenia Geddes da Filicaia and Anne Stewart

From record to image: creating The Field of the Cloth of Gold / Rosanna de Sancha, Claire Chorley and Claire Shepherd

Indigo: collaboration, collections, conservation, chemistry / Jenny Williamson, Cecile Charbonneau and Ann Hunter

Bridging the gap: reconsidering the artist’s involvement in the conservation process / Virginia Nouwen, Yetunde Odediran, Olympia Diamond and Julia Nagle

A facsimile for a lady: Glasgow Museum’s Unfinished Portrait of an Unknown Lady / María José Prieto Pedregal

The lost Atlantic City: the discovery of a painting by Helen Saunders beneath Praxitella by Wyndham Lewis / Helen Kohn and Rebecca Chipkin

Early Jackson Pollock: the conservation treatment of Naked Man with Knife, Tate collection / Francesca Secchi

Collaboration across centuries? Investigating the reworkings of Hexham Abbey’s ‘Ogle’ altarpiece / Alice Limb and Lucy Wrapson

Distanced but connected: investigation and treatment of the Poynter cartoons from the Heritage Collections at UK Parliament / Chloe Head, Elsa Guerreiro, Caroline Babington, Guan-Lin Liu and Sergei G. Kazarian

Conserving chip by chip: collaborations and challenges in the conservation of a painting on chipboard / Andrei Azzopardi, David Frank Buġeja, Anthony Spagnol and Rachel Vella

Challenges for consolidation and cleaning Franciszka Themerson’s unvarnished white oil paintings: a case study, Abstract (1949) / Aviva Burnstock, Melissa Barton and Silvia Rita Amato

One stereotypical image of a conservator – or an artist – is of a lone figure absorbed in their work at an easel. This is, of course, rarely the full picture: whether in the making of artworks or the conservation of them, collaboration is often fundamental to the process. Conservators work with each other and with art historians, scientists, artists, stakeholders and many others. The objects they encounter are themselves not always the work of a single hand.

The successes and challenges of working collaboratively are brought to the fore in this volume of papers presented at the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers conference Hand in Hand: Collaboration in Art and Conservation. Through a focus on working together, the contributions explore a wide range of questions addressing practical treatments, technical investigations, ethical questions and public engagement in relation to paintings dating from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.